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ah, let me back. this is al jazeera life dough are also coming up calls for the bangladesh prime minister to resign as the cost of power and basic goods skyrocket . strikes across the u. k as pressure bills to improve the national health service . and we look at the palestinians, and israelis uniting to protest against the countries ultra right wing government for weeks, ukraine has been pleading with its western allies for tanks. it says it desperately needs to support its campaign against russia. and now it appears that said to receive some of the most advanced compact vehicles in the world from the u. s. and germany sources have told al jazeera, the biden administration will approve the delivery of m one abrams tanks. as soon

as wednesday, where they could take months or even years to actually reach the front lines, russia says any supply of such tanks would be a blatant provocation, but ukraine's president vladimir lensky says his country, nice decisions on real deliveries. that direction, part of what it there is a lot of talk about tanks, about modern tanks that we need and about the way this shortfall can be filled if it's a lot of efforts, words promises well, but it is important not to lose sight of reality. but it is not about 5 or 10 or 15 tags. the need is larger. michigan, terrible session of heathen ship discussions must be concluded with decisions, decisions on real strength thing of our defense against terrorists. a saw a bunch of aid takes a closer look at the type of military hardware that's been promised to ukraine and how that could realistically affect developments on the actual battlefield.

this is the leper to a coveted german battle tank. the 55 to 60 tons stealth war machine known for expired power mobility and armor, has a 500 kilometer range. the tanks have been in production for 44 years and currently around 2000 are being used by 13 european armies. but the arrival on ukrainian battlefields is still problematic. in addition to the modern leopard twos considered to be the most agile in their class. other military equipment has also been promised to ukraine. that includes the challenger to which are coming from the united kingdom. france has not decided yet, but it is considering sending the la clerk battle tax as well. germany has promised to send its mud infantry vehicles and on its part the united states has promised in the military package, which includes the striker combat vehicles. ukraine is pleading for more advanced military equipment, including a fleet of $300.00 battle tanks. there are pros and cons of tanks in more warfare.

instead of the jet fuel powered american tanks, the german leopards, diesel engines make their operations easier, but ukrainian troops will need extensive training to operate and maintain new tanks . in addition to all the other military hardware, then there is the challenge of transporting tanks. why a real or on rule convoys, logistics, fuel expertise and security to reach the battle arena are major question marks. crucially for you cream, how many tanks would it take to change the dynamics of territory? it's trying to protect or reclaim and by the tanks being hardware in use for 70 years have reached the limits as practical fighting vehicles. germany has been reluctant to provide the tank, the ukraine because of the anti militarism position it adopted after the 2nd world . or in addition to enter european challenges. russia has warned of what it calls an extremely dangerous escalation. if need to were to deploy high tech weapons brush and diplomats have said moscow would retaliate if ukraine were to use quest

and supplied weapons to doggett, russia, or the crimean peninsula. some of the job, if they're there will as go straight to the ukrainian capital cave. natasha butler is standing by and natasha. why is it taking so long for the u. s. and germany to reach a decision on sending tanks will. and germany's been hesitating for weeks of whether or not to send dates like the tank saw, allow other countries that have them to send them all. so look, germany has been worried about sending the wrong signal to moscow of escalating the war. all of this tied up with germany's military pos, particularly in world war 2. now berlin has also said for many weeks now that if it was to syntax, they would want to do so as part of a wider coalition, particularly with the united states. now we're seeing the u. s. signaling that it

could announce that it is sending some of its abrams tanks to ukraine. so it does look as if there is movement that germany and the u. s. will be sending these a tank. the ukraine has said that it needs for so long. some of the u. s. had said in the past though, that it was reluctant to send some of its abrams tanks cuz it faded. they weren't particularly suited to ukraine to the territory. and also there were concerns over it meeting a jet fuel. but as i said, it does seem that some of this hesitation is being brushed aside and natasha, as you say, there may be tentative possible movement. has there been any reaction in ukraine to these reports that they could soon receive these tags? we'll talk age to the president vladimir zalinski rather evocative lea, a describe the possibility of these tanks being sent as a punching fist for democracy. now, a presence lensky in his nightly address. certainly more cautious. he said that

ukraine is still waiting for decisions, waiting for waiting decisions. he said he also said the look, we need to prepare for a possible new russian offensive. and a 10 or 15 tanks isn't going to cut it ukraine want so many more. it has said for while now that it needs at least $300.00 tanks. and what most military expert says, look, these tang song going to be at the tanks. it will be sent possibly by germany, by the u. s. on going to be a game changer. if i any, by any margin, thought they will at least help ukranian troops because they'll be use long side. the other heavy weaponry has been sent by western powers and they will help bolster ukrainian forces as they defend themselves against ongoing russian attacks are in natasha. thanks for clarifying all our frozen hash about to live in cuba. and other news, the economic fall out from the war and ukraine is being felt world wide and people in bangladesh are protesting over the rising cost of living. the main opposition

party called for nationwide rallies to demand action on high fuel and food prices. it was prime minister shake her seni to resign, and a caretaker government to take over until elections are held as good. a tanveer chowdhury in dhaka for more on this and tanveer. tell us more about these protests . are they gathering pace? they're? oh yes, it's gaining pays and says off protest rally that taken place this month. we've been here on january 11th at 10, so 1000 people gathering here. people are still coming in. now this particular rally is for the bangladesh nationalist party. the main opposition party does other rallies across the country and in other parts of the city. where does the coalition of nature of different parties all under the platform for democratic movement. and this has been going on since august via. 1 that pistol,

my dad's been classes with police. according to the our position, at least a dozen people were killed, thousands arrested within the last 3 months. that can point key demands out of course resignation of the government, the dissolution of the parliament, and to conduct the election under probation of internal government and also to refund the election commission. now that's one of the major demand up while the opposition party. and of course there's been an increase in an or did i say, inflation is high. they central food items on every day growing up for a lot of ordinary people from off of life. i participating in this. 2 valley is to ensure that this content driven against the government, they want this crisis to come down. the guy. 2 industrial gas price last week was the reason to over 100 percent. the electricity has been raised again by 5 percent off for the full price was right. 50 percent last year. so the people with fixed

income and low income i really struggling. in fact, that's what it appears like opposition party is not trying to gather momentum and to keep the pressure on the government. the government on the other site said they cannot bring the i think i've got many and their writings on their economic success in the previous year. i did, well, i know check us in as far as the economy is concerned, it was one of the fastest growing in the country or in the world. and there's been a lot of research dr. development project. so they're counting on that. but i don't think there's opposition movement is gonna slide down any time before the election, which is scheduled in december 2023 and via, despite how well the economy has been doing in recent years. the current government has faced all sorts of allegations of authoritarianism. of police brutality. is there a sense that they are doing things differently this time when it comes to responding

to the demonstrations there? oh yes, there's been no serious allegation against nepotism and corruption. the balance of payment is negative. 2 foreign exchange rates are based law, so the government is having serious trouble. choir bestbuy, so straight for good from overseas. and they haven't been able to really bring down the inflation of the cost of rising our core down essential items that also been cracking down. there's also digital security law which reprocessed people's taking part or any dissenting points on social media. 5 or any other platform, even the media have to do a lot of self censorship because that has a lot of pressure from the government. it doesn't allow any dissenting wife. and the free speech about defending space has been decrease in increasingly because of the track down by the government in recent years. time via many thanks for the

temperature re live in dock county. the ongoing strikes to the u. k. national hell service a highlighting pressures that have been growing for years. workers want better pay and staffing levels, but a senior conservative politician has called for means tested fees for those using the national health service. the chess, the dean barber looks at a debate on the future of what seen as britain's national treasure with strike spreading and talk of a system on its knees is britain's reverence for its national health service. looking much needed reform. such a javits certainly think so. the conservative former health secretary and finance minister wrote recently the 75 year old model of the n h. s. is unsustainable. javits suggested people could pay for consulting a family doctor and price island system where patients must pay around $81.00 to access the equivalence of the you case accident and emergency departments a and e,

unless referred by their doctor. now that's the sort of idea. most british politicians run away from because it means scrapping the doctrine that health care should be free at the point of need. the prime minister has distance himself from the comment, but pretty soon like it did before taking off it took about issuing finds to enact as patients who miss appointments. he then backtracked, the opposition labor parties also stepped into the debate shadow hill secretary west street and has suggested the growing waiting lists could be tackled by the nature sending more patience to private hospitals. louise irv in a retired family doctor, an anti privatization campaigner thinks that's a bad idea. there isn't an infinite pool of doctors, nurses, and a lot of doctors, nurses go to that in the private sector because they get paid more. and furthermore, when something goes wrong in the private sector, the patient is then, you know, red light, it straight into air, and then it has andy. now, if we, what we need is we need to build up our n h f. again,

louis says she did see real improvements in patient experience in the 2 thousands on the labor when annual increases in nature as funding were higher than they are now. since it was created spending on the n h. s is increased by an average 3.7 percent per year in real terms, but from 2010 to 2018. when the conservatives covered in coalition and that on their own annual n h s funding growth slow to 1.4 percent is rising more quickly now, but an aging population, an increasing demand for expensive treatments means nobody's noticing. if we look at the energy as compared to other o e c d countries, we have few a doctors and nurses per, had a population. we have few hospital beds for had a population. we have low levels of investment in things like diagnostic equipment and all those things are not about the way in which the system they, they are not as is organized and funded. that's about the, the fundamental decisions we made about the level of that we want to spend on health in this country. so the challenge to the politicians is this dealing with

the crises hitting the health service right now. planning for the long term and avoiding a 2 tier sister. nadine barbara al jazeera london rescue as a searching for 10 people missing after their ships sank. southwest of japan, the vessel was carrying a 2222 crew members when the captain sent out a distress call during a storm on tuesday night is sank 3 and a half hours later, mandarin, 60 kilometers from nagasaki, troll boats and search aircraft were delayed by bad weather still had allowed a u. s. justice department and a states assuming google accusing it of abusing dominance and advertising a new prime minister, shock reservation of just in the order. ah

hello there. let's have a look at the weather across europe and the unsettled, stormy conditions continue to plague, the very sample of wet and windy weather, dominating across the mediterranean, pushing its way farther towards a se. we've got red warnings out for thunderstorms across greece, and we will see some more wet and wintery weather. it's got to blow down into the north of spain and portugal by thursday, temperatures here below the average they will be getting even lower as those cold conditions start to creep and be you can see the wet and windy weather on wednesday, pushing down to northern parts of africa, algeria seen some snow snow as well across the balkans, but it's really the thunderstorms rolling across to the east of greece that dominate the story into thursday for the north of this rather gloomy with some fog issues in places for the north west in england. rain coming in from the north, but it does start to clear up as we go into thursday. much of the winter weather can be found pushing into norway, but also some snow rolling across the baltics into western parts of russia. and

we've got another front that's going to drag its way across the likes of iceland. the temperature in reykjavik, however, it stains steady, picking up slightly into thursday. 7 degrees celsius. but look at that wind and rain that she weather update. i'll be back with more later. ah, depleting the issues of the day, the 5 largest polluters of the world are in india into the street. they made their money on coal. they made their money on steel. convincing those folks, no, we need to go. green is very, very difficult, giving all avoidance we chose to do because we wanted to escape war and violence. when you humanize this narrative, you allow people to really understand the reality and break down misconceptions. the street on al jazeera ah

ah, welcome back here watching al jazeera is all top stories. this ukraine is said to receive advance combat vehicles from the u. s. and germany sources of told al jazeera that washington's ready to approve the delivery of am one abrams tanks. berlin is expected to authorize exports of leopard to tax bangladesh. his main opposition party is cool for nationwide riley's to demand action to curb holly fuel and food prices. it wants prime minister shake cassini to resign and the cats like a government to take over until election to have a cargo ship carrying a crew of 22 has sunk south west of japan. 12 people have been rescued, but 10 are missing. patrol boat, some such

a craft were delayed by bad weather. the u. s. in israel a holding joint military exercises involving american americans over 100 fight jets in the eastern mediterranean. they sway the army, say the maneuvers will include training pilots to hit targets and what they call complex situations. the pentagon says the drills are not directed against any specific country. it's right, isn't palestinians living in israel, if united in protests against the new far right government that it's ready? critics say as agenda is a threat to democracy and palestinians fear further injustice and discrimination. i'm admire reports from jaffer, near television, many protesting poor palestinian writes in israel said the r fast becoming further marginalized major protests against the new far right government. and it's passed to change the judicial system are occupying the minds of men in the country. these

demonstrators and jaffa argue that tens of thousands protesting inter levies against the government are white to feel the worst and want to save gov democracy. but the few injustices and discrimination against the palestinians are worsening. and that's being overlooked. this issue, it's the main cause of conflict and beat them is between both sides and it's totally against my balance on a value. on order for, for my point of view against the jewelry, these in value. there is it that if you was really jewish fifteens in agile, as you will see, a lot of things outreach together. some of them are, i'm kids. i only i those are a liberal democrat who really look for womanizing mass equality. they are running themselves. the camp of equality, they are calling for equal rights for both these ratings and that the medicines

alike. and they believed that all successive governments in israel have not addressed the root cause of more problems, which is, as they say, occupation a, the protesters until a, the accused prime minister benjamin netanyahu of plotting with his new partners to dismantle democratic checks and balances. but for this is really peace activist. there's one big missing piece in the political. jake's whole, we need to acknowledge that these are the quotes of the problem, which are not only these government, but the whole is ernest regime. we're talking about decades of indoctrination and of, of concealing the historical facts of what has been going on here from 48 and even before ha, for these protestors, discrimination against the palestinians is growing. and the state that will get

worse in israel and the occupied territories, as long as it's people are treated differently. i'm mad under sierra jennifer, who and us military has fired at a congolese jazz. it says violate of the country's airspace. video posted on line appears to show the plane before it before it landed in goma and east and democratic republic of congo. recent advances made by m. 20 fee rebels in the region have increased tension between the neighboring countries. the d. r. c accuses rwanda of backing. the group which could garley denies. the former president of martini has been detained a day before the start of his trial for corruption. mohammed old abdul aziz is facing charges along with several of the government members. he's refused to answer questions on how he amassed his fortune is estimated at around $70000000.00. abdul aziz says the accusations against him are politically motivated and the constitution gives him immunity from prosecution. a series of powerful storm

systems move through the southern state of texas or tornado ripped through the city of houston damaging power lines leaving around a 123000 people without power. torrential, rain and strong wind schools flooding across the city. no serious injuries were reported. our vigil has been held to remember victims of saturday shooting at a dance studio in southern california. 11 people died of the attack in monterey park. on tuesday, there was another shooting at 2 agricultural businesses in the northern city of half moon bay. several people died in that attack. only in america, do we see this kind of carnage, this kind of chaos, this kind of destruction of communities and lives in conflicts in a sense of safety and belonging which we whole year and for, regardless of our political stripes. the u. s. department of justice says sued google,

accusing it of illegally stifling competition for online ad revenue. prosecutors say the company has been taken to monopoly through anti competitive behavior. and what is our business broken up? google's parent company alphabet says the lawsuit is based on a flawed argument and will slow innovation. for 15 years, google has pursued a course of anti competitive conduct that has allowed it to halt the rise of rival technologies, manipulate auction mechanics, to insulate itself from competition. and force advertisers and publishers to use its tools in so doing google has engaged in exclusionary conduct is severely weakened, if not destroy competition in the ad tech industry. you, as in canada, have shown no interest in deploying security forces to haiti must, despite renewed calls from the un and the haitian government. the issue was discussed by the un security council. on tuesday, haiti has spiraled into political uncertainty in chaos since the assassination of

president juvenile moyse. 2 years ago, is battling a color outbreak and severe food shortages made worse by widespread gang violence of rising levels of poverty. robert re, canada's ambassador to the un told out, is there any intervention would need to help develop to would help develop haiti, security forces we're engaging very directly with the police, were sending more equipment and also making sure that the, the, the military, that the police force has the ability to deal with the gangs in terms of the level of support that we can provide. anything we do will also be based on the learned experienced or a massive external intervention just on its own that says to the, to the, to the haitian police were taking over here. thank you very much. we'll just do this isn't, isn't, this doesn't have a sustainable impact. it doesn't last. and the key thing is to build up the haitian

institutions. so they have the capacity in the justice system. they have capacity with police. they have the capacity on the ground plus the other political things that need to happen. because there is not at the moment a, a government that, that is elected that has this, the constitutional support of the people. so those are things that need to happen and together in canada is we're, we're doing that now we're engaging politically, we're engaging in terms of training and assistance and equipment. and we're going to continue to do that and, and with respect to additional forces, whatever. i think that that all remains to be to be seen. security forces in peru have fire tear gas or thousands of anti government protested in the capitol. they demanding president dina boulevard a resignation and new elections quality as cool for a national troops following weeks of unrest. more than 50 people have been killed.

the crisis began in december of the former president pedro castillo, tried to dissolve congress and was arrested. arianna sanchez has more from lima. oh, does he live? i have made peace. oh protest. i checked with my mental de la garza, they've hit me on the head. this is a murderous dictator ship. we came here peacefully. they not policemen. they kill us. but a lot. oh, but a lot my lot security forces. i'm open fire against written in the know about the house, ask for forgiveness, but she said the bullet did not come from the police, but from protesters will be billed on day. i thought he said that there are videos where it seems there are using sling shot, but it's not that it's a weapon that can kill someone chance have been fired from home to kill people in

the protest. it's not the police that shooting it. well, that's why we ask the prosecution to celebrate the investigations. ah, many people came from the high land. i got the nurses from the border in between bonnie bianchi do. and she has to stay here to produce medicare and for the t probably. now they have been here for nearly a week and they said they will stay. they have nothing to do until president dina resigned from office. because hipkins has been sworn in new zealand prime minister and follows the surprised resignation of jacinta arden. last week. he faces the task of reviving the government's waning popularity ahead of october's general election. adrian brown has more from wellington. this has been a quick and orderly political transition on wednesday. jazz hinder,

our durn left parliament for the last time mopped by colleagues and supported the gathering was a reflection of this country's wide cultural diversity. the transfer of power was completed when chris hipkins was sworn in as new zealand, 41st prime minister. his deputy is carmel zeppelin, the 1st person of pacific islander descent to hold the position, the post confirmed by governor general, dane cindy cura. the 1st mari to hold up position hipkins who led the government's response to cobit 19. has promised to focus on what he calls, bread and butter issues. when jazz inter are then became prime minister a popularity was undeniable, but a rating stead on a backlash against kobe 19 restrictions increase food costs, rising mortgages, concerns over crime. analysts say people simply want someone to blame and that person seems to be just inter arden. yes,

i think she to her absolute every stop. i haven't a car that an inch. the shootings and the left. so the thing that she's dish last hit my jo towards cmj. i know what this job takes and i know that i no longer have enough in the tank to do it. justice. last thursday's announcement was one that few saw coming. an unusual acknowledgment from a world leader that she was burnt out vicious, abuse her on the streets and on line raised concerns over her safety. she's received death threats and so her child, the next election will be in less than 9 months, which means hipkins may not be in the job long, especially as opinion polls show labor now trading the conservative opposition. our journey is leading office at a time of her choosing, although she'll remain in m p for 3 more months. and at $42.00.